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- Comment on Solving CAPTCHA for 'Bicycle' -- Include Rider? 1 day ago:
CAPTCHAs are solved by consensus. Whatever the CAPTCHA thinks a bicycle is depends on what people before it selected. Sometimes it doesn’t know and just uses your answer to set up future CAPTCHAs. So you should be thinking: what would other people (or bots) select for the CAPTCHA.
- Comment on Language 1 week ago:
I think free will is an illusion that a brain creates to aid in human perception. This illusion is an evolutionary adaptation so that a human acts to preserve its body and its genes by perceiving its person as distinct from other persons and the environment.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
It’s a big improvement from making them from straw.
- Comment on I knew it 5 weeks ago:
Are the Dutch the same as the lizard people? Because if not, I don’t get what this is saying.
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 5 weeks ago:
I am 50 years old. I thought by becoming a research engineer I could improve the world like others before me who created things like radio, indoor plumbing, and textile factories. I published over a hundred research papers, but I learned that no one reads research papers anymore, and publication has become a complete waste of time. I learned that politics and money trump engineering considerations 100% of the time, and that the sole purpose of technology now seems to draw money from investors’ wallets. I wanted to be a great teacher, but engineers are not paid to do that because it doesn’t make money, so now I just make open source projects that I hope can be used to be examples to learn from. But I don’t think I’ll be remembered, as it seems technology nowadays is largely used as a means of swindling people out of their money so they can buy stuff they don’t need and makes them miserable.
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 5 weeks ago:
It could be worse. Think of spending your years on a futile effort, one which you sacrificed your youth and health to try to achieve, and having to look back on that.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
- Comment on To put life into perspective 5 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, none of this will matter after the heat death of the universe.
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- Comment on You jaded pessimists 1 month ago:
It’s not stupid. Perpetual despondence can kill you as surely as a bullet.
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 1 month ago:
What operating system defines you as a person?
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
A blockchain can provide an irrevocable record, and it can provide a mechanism for uncooperating parties to agree that the record should be created. This is usually used for financial transactions involving coins of dubious value, but it can also be used for recording transactions of real world assets as long as those transactions can be faithfully linked to the event on the blockchain. Therefore the blockchain doesn’t really prove that a transaction is fraudulent or not, all it proves is that a sufficient number of parties believe it is not.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 0 comments
- Comment on But isn't it dead too? 2 months ago:
This is survivor bias in action.
- Comment on Fake news, fake penis... 3 months ago:
Think of the children!
- Comment on Gen Z is prioritizing living over working because they've seen 'the legacy of broken promises' in corporate America, a future-of-work expert says 3 months ago:
You’re not even number two.
- Comment on A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? 3 months ago:
Hey, I wanna sell Alphabet stock. Make the balance sheet look good so I can unload!
- Comment on Merry ChristmaX 4 months ago:
Please don’t show us what a Wii would look like.
- Comment on Swedish dockworkers are refusing to unload Teslas at ports in broad boycott move 5 months ago:
Aren’t cross-trade strikes a consequence of union solidarity? I think large federated unions in other countries engage is similar protests.
- Comment on What is the worst US state to live in generally? 8 months ago:
Well, Bill Bryson might be right. But have you seen the rest of the world? Boring can be good. Be careful what you ask for.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Since people mostly vote along party lines nowadays, regardless of whomever each party nominates, the race is really who is nominated by each party. The problem now for a party is increasing turnout, not changing the minds of voters. And turnout in primary elections, which determines the nomination, is dominated by the extreme elements of a party. So you get candidates that appeal to the most extreme elements that vote in the primaries.
- Submitted 9 months ago to daria@lemmy.world | 2 comments